Fire danced on the palm of my hand as I stared at it for a good long while. We're still here in the Land of Waves and the bridge isn't even finished yet. This is becoming so tedious. 

"You're not going to hang out with your squad?" Yuuki questioned as he stood behind me while I was sitting down in the grass. 

"What's the point? Sasuke and Naruto are still training, Kakashi is still recovering, and Sakura is probably with Tazuna. I can't even call these people a squad." 

"Yeah, I know. So, do you think he's still out there? Zabuza?" 

"I know he's still out there. He's after the bridge builder after all. But I have a feeling he's going to bring help along with him." That boy earlier today... He sounded a lot like the fake tracking ninja. And he was collecting herbs that were for healing wounds. I bet he's working with Zabuza. "Let's head back, Yuuki." 

"Okay." He nodded and followed me back to the house. 

"Hey! What do you think!?" I turn my attention to Naruto when he started yelling. He finally made it up the tree, and he was hanging upside down. 

"He finally did it." Yuuki mentioned and I nodded, agreeing with him. 

"But how long can he stay like that?" I questioned and right on cue, Naruto's feet were no longer sticking to the branch. 

As he fell, I sprinted over to the tree and ran up the trunk, then grabbed Naruto as he was falling. I held him by his waist, putting him to my hip as I landed on the ground. 

"Are you alright?" I asked him while setting him down. 

"Y-Yeah. Thanks, Mokou. But I totally had it!" He laughed while placing his hand on the back of his head. 

"Wow. She did that so fast. I didn't even see her." Sakura said as I walked to the house. 

"It's called training. You should try it some time." I said while walking pass her. I knew it was going to piss her off. 

As the day went on, Sasuke and Naruto were still training. Still competing against each other of who can climb the highest. "Mokou, are you listening?" Kakashi calls out to me. 

"Hmm?" I turn to him with my head resting on my hand. "What?" 

"I said we'll be going with Tazuna tomorrow so he can get finished preparing the bridge." He says again. 

"Okay. And then we can go back to the village, right?" 

"Yes." 

"Finally." I yawn. I'm getting tired of being in the Land of Waves. I miss my home in the forest. When I go back I need to check on the house just in case any rouges have invaded it. And they did, I'll have to kill them... 

The next day, Sakura, Sasuke, Kakashi, and I went with Tazuna to the bridge that he has been working on. We left Naruto back at the house because he trained until he dropped. So we're letting him sleep in. 

While we were at the bridge, a mist began to form around us. Yuuki got beside me quickly as we both knew what this meant. "He's here..." I spoke out in a mutter. 

"I won't be beaten again." We hear his voice from within the mist. It doesn't take long for him to reveal himself with another person with him. 

"It's the same ninja from before. The tracking ninja." Yuuki says and I nodded. I should have known. 

"Get ready." I say back. "Didn't take long for you to show up." I speak out loud for the tracking ninja and Zabuza to hear.

"That's it. I'm taking him out. Who does he think he's fooling? Hiding behind that mask." Sasuke tries to act cool as Sakura plays along. Less talking, more fighting.

"She is very clever like you said. Last time she burned herself out, did she not?" The masked man said. "Let's see if we can do that again."

"Do it." Zabuza ordered the masked ninja. Suddenly, the masked ninja began spinning around while coming towards us.

"Yuuki, stay with the others." I say while taking a step forward as Yuuki takes a step back.

"You got this." He tells me as the masked man gets closer and closer. Taking another step forward, I begin to start up fire in the palm of my hand.

"Let's see you handle this." I make the fire bigger before turning it into a giant fire ball, then aiming it at the masked man. As his twirling wind gulped up my flames, I got close enough and appeared through the flames, clashing my kunai with his needle. 'Too slow.' I thought.

His movements were swift and fast. And so were mine. After another clash, the masked man speaks, "We want the Bridge Builder, not you. If you back down, I won't have to kill you."

"Well, I can't be killed easily." I reply.

"You're making a mistake. You won't be able to keep up with me. You will burn yourself out again like the last time."

"Heard that before."

"....So be it." He says and begins performing hand signs with one hand.

'That's new.' I slowly blink with my thoughts.

"Secret Ninjutsu: 1,000 Needles of Death." He says and the water that was surrounding us levitated into the air and turned into needles. My eyes scan up and see the amount of needles in the air.

As the needles darted at me all at once, I hear a screech coming from Yuuki, causing all of the needles to be blasted away from both me and the masked man. "Nice try. You won't get to her like that." Yuuki called out.

"My turn." My eyes glow as I use my other hand to summon, "Fire Whip." Using my other hand, I use the fire whip to slash at the masked man. But, he is quick enough to get out of the way. Using the fire whip again I almost catch one of his ankles. "Too slow." I am suddenly behind him and he quickly turns around, and tries to slash me with his needle in hand.

Twirling around and while using the whip, I block him from slashing me with the needle. Using the whip again, I wrap it around his neck and throw him to Zabuza, landing near him with a hard threat, followed by a grunt.

"Haku, if we keep going like this, we'll be the victims instead of them. Get on with it." Zabuza says out loud.

'Haku.' I say his name in my head.

"Right." Haku replies as he stood up from the ground. I see chakra rising from his body as the air around us became cold. I glare at him as he begins to perform another hand sign. The water behind me turned into ice and formed into a mirror.

More and more ice mirrors began to appear all around me. From the looks of it, I don't think my fire can melt it. Haku walked in front of one of the mirrors and his reflection began to show. It's like he became one with the mirror. Then, his reflection showed in each mirror. Which means it'll be hard for me to define which one is the real Haku. If he moves around there is no telling which one is the real Haku.

 "Mokou!" I hear Yuuki call out to me and hear him running towards me.

"Yuuki, stay put. I got this." I call out to him.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah." I nodded. But I'm not entirely sure... Within seconds, needles begin to dart at me from each mirror. Haku is throwing them from each mirror. I use my fire to create a sphere shield around me to protect me from the needles. He won't be able to get a scratch on me. But how long can I hold on like this?

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